By Frank Kamuntu
A young woman from Kitale in Trans Nzoia county in Kenya has shared her heartbreaking story of being abandoned by her lover on their wedding day.
After tough luck in her previous relationship, Melvine Nanjala Macheso saw a new dawn in a man she met on Facebook.
Nanjala noted that the man, who introduced himself as Moses, expressed the need to settle from the onset of their conversations, which drew her to him.
“He sent me a friend request and texted me immediately I accepted. He would send me messages daily telling me that he was not looking for a girlfriend but a wife,” she said in an inerview on Citizen TV.
To test if he was honest, the young woman, a mother of three, asked him to visit her and meet her pastor to express his desire for marriage.
“I had not met him yet, so I talked to my pastor, who agreed to see him. He came, and we went to church together and later told my pastor that he wanted to marry me and take care of my two kids,” she explained.
Two weeks later, Moses returned, bought the entire church drinks, and gave the pastor and his wife KSh 2000, which he borrowed from Nanjala.
The mother three explained that Moses’ actions made everyone like him and envy her for getting a rich man.
“When he got back, he sent me images of a big house he was building for us, and I got excited that I was getting married to a rich man from the army. He started rushing our wedding, noting that he did not mind a small ceremony as long as we would move in together,” she said.
The mother of three narrated that they courted for seven months, and Moses could visit her in Nairobi, where she was hustling, awaiting their wedding.
A few weeks before their wedding day, the soon-to-be groom asked Nanjala for a loan of KSh 10,000 to process a loan that would be used to cater for wedding expenses.
“He told me he was applying for a loan to cover the wedding expenses and that it would take 24 hours to be released. He told me that he needed KSh 10,000 to apply for the loan and asked me to borrow somewhere he would refund,” she noted.
Having trusted the man and being excited to marry, she borrowed the amount from a friend who worked at Mpesa shop promising to refund her in 24 hours as promised by her fiance’.
A day later, the man noted that the loan request had failed and that KSh 8,000 more was needed to process it.
“I borrowed the money yet again from someone else and sent him but he called me two days later saying the loan process had failed,” she stated.
“As the loan process failed, he said he had become desperate. He requested me to find the money for our wedding expenses, promising to pay every dime once his loan was processed,” she added.
Nanjala, smitten by the man, noted that she did not suspect any foul play and continued taking loans for her wedding preparations, including her gown, the hall they would use in Kibera, food and other expenses.
In November 2023, the church was packed with relatives and friends waiting to celebrate the young woman’s union with her husband.
However, the man was a no-show. He called her, saying they did not have fuel, and she took another loan from the church offerings to facilitate his transport.
“The church was full, I was ready, and everyone was present except him. I called severally, and he picked saying there was no one to relieve him from work, but he was on his way coming. Time went by as he kept on encouraging me that he was coming. By 5 pm. I realised I was played,” she narrated.
As the evening came, the wedding guests left one by one until the bride was left with the pastor, his wife and a few church leaders.
“The first thing in my mind was the debts I had accrued, then my two months of pregnancy, which I had not shared with anyone but him. I stayed with my pastor for three days contemplating on how I was going to pay KSh 148,000 I owed people,” she noted.
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